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October 17
166 years ago · 1860
“Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.”
— Abraham Lincoln
121 years ago · 1905
“I felt what a privilege it is that I, as an American, have in claiming that you yourselves have no more right of kinship in Lee and Jackson than I have.”
— Teddy Roosevelt
97 years ago · 1929
“IN COOPERATION with Secretary Wilbur, I have now made a start at the selection of this Commission.”
— Herbert Hoover